Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver", he says, "will usually know what's wrong.

For those of you who aren't computer types: Ken Thompson was one of the principle designers of theUnix operating system (the model which Linus Torvalds stole from was inspired by when he designedLinux), and Unix is justifiably legendary for the uninformative terseness of its error messages.

Well subby, while it's unique, it's completely useless. Thing looked like it might be hitting about 30 mph, scooter speed, but not $32,000 motorcycle speed.

And that video sure as fark isn't going to win anyone over. What was it, like 7 seconds of the motorcycle? No look at these mirror based displays? No focus on the 'hub centered steering'? 7 seconds of the thing tooliing by slightly faster than my car would roll downhill?

They showed me nothing to get excited about with this bike, other then the fact that the design is unique. But, I've seen some unique cars, too...

While that is an awesome piece of engineering, the practicality of that bike is limited by the fact that the input lag on throttle is measured in seconds. If you have no immediate intention of killing yourself, then that bike is pretty much limited to the drag strip.

Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver", he says, "will usually know what's wrong.

For those of you who aren't computer types: Ken Thompson was one of the principle designers of theUnix operating system (the model which Linus Torvalds stole from was inspired by when he designedLinux), and Unix is justifiably legendary for the uninformative terseness of its error messages.